Bay Ridge merchants collect Christmas toys for soldiers’ kids
The toys were piling up as fast as the pizza slices were disappearing at the Yellow Hook Grille restaurant in Bay Ridge Monday night as the Merchants of Third Avenue business group held a Christmas party-toy drive.
The Merchants, an organization representing more than 250 store owners on the busy shopping avenue, asked party guests to bring an unwrapped toy to the bash to be donated to the children of enlisted personnel stationed at the Fort Hamilton Army Base.
By the end of the night, the back corner of the Yellow Hook Grille had a mountain of toys.